- Contemporary China Centre
- Centre for Social Justice Research
About me
I am a Senior Lecturer with the School of Humanities. Prior to joining Westminster, I taught at Hull and SOAS, University of London, where I completed my PhD. Before coming to the UK, I was involved in theatre and worked as a part-time radio producer-presenter. Other working on a monograph examining the discourse on television drama censorship in postsocialist China, I am currently collaborating on a project that focuses on the decolonising the curation of Asian cinemas.
Teaching
My main teaching duties in Westminster include undergraduate modules on Chinese language and cinema, and translation at postgraduate level. As a professionally certified educator, I believe that Socratic questioning is an effective pedagogical approach for empowering students to challenge their assumptions and developing their critical thinking skills.
Research Supervision
I welcome inquiries about postgraduate supervision in the fields of film, media and theatre censorship; Sinophone and intercultural theatre; contemporary Chinese studies; decolonisation cross film studies, film curation and theatre; Southeast Asia-China relations on screen; gender and sexuality; Southeast Asian cinema and Singapore Studies.
I'm currently supervising:
Yumeng, Yang, PhD project, "Chinese Queer Representation on Social Media," 2024-2028.
Tianwen, Shen, PhD project, 'Bisexuality in China,' 2023-2027.
Ge, Zhu, PhD project (practice-based), 'Photography Taken by Chinese People in Beijing Since 1992,' 2022-2026.
Fei Huang, PhD project, 'Stay-at-Home Fathers in Contemporary China', 2019-2023 (completed).
Research
My research interests range from Sinophone film, media, theatre, visual culture to literature. A key aspect of my research examines the representations of audiences, censorship in Sinophone cinema and theatre, and in particular, the exclusionary politics of representation in relation to ethnicity, nationality, gender and sexuality. I am also interested in issues of cultural intervention, artistic autonomy, and the mediation of death and dying in theatre. More recently, my research includes Asian film curation and film education.
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.